Mike and I are on the epic road trip (ERT) we've talked about doing for years!
8:00 a.m.--leaving home. Van has 99,524 miles on her. She'll reach 100K on this trip, maybe even today.
8:30 a.m. Stopped at CEFCU to get Mike's mug.
8:45 a.m. Back on the road, discussing brain transplants. Saw a weird alien-looking load on the back of a semi.
10:30 a.m. Mike: "What's wrong with people? You can't use a turn signal?!"
11:45 a.m. GAS at Road Ranger in Elk Run Heights, Iowa. $1.99/gal x 10.4 gal = $20.80. Employees and a few customers wearing masks, but not everyone.
12:00 p.m. Eating on the road the lunch I packed yesterday.
2:30 p.m. The GPS just told Mike to continue on U.S. 20 West. He said to it, "Where else am I gonna go?" There's absolutely nothing out here. No gas stations or even billboards. Just fields. We had a nice chat all morning, catching up. Listened to Andrew Wommack this afternoon.
2:45 p.m. GAS at the 4-Way Stop Shop in Moville, Iowa. $1.98/gal x 9.96 gal = $19.82. Windy, hot, humid. Nobody wearing masks, not even the employees. They had some bins of 5 cent candy that reminded me that I used to get penny candy at the grain elevator in Trivoli in the summer.
3:00 p.m. Mike quote: "Western Iowa's not great. Pretty much the whole state smells like pig." We are driving right along the Missouri River and can see Nebraska on the other side.
3:15 p.m. Just crossed the South Dakota border, and the van hit 100,000 miles. Speed limit is 80.
4:15 p.m. Arriving at Baymont Hotel in Sioux Falls, SD. We're playing the license plate game, where we try to find a license plate from every state. We saw plates from 22 different states today.
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